Spam prevention

Abstract

Multiple inventions are included. Also users of an email system are limited in ways including to be able to send only a certain number of emails per day. This can ensure for example that if they spam the system they can be suspended before they can send an economically worthwhile amount of spam.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to the field of email. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0002] Spam in email is a major problem with according to some estimates over fifty percent of all email being spam. The more sophisticate filters get the more difficult it becomes for legitimate users to talk about many subjects. It would be desirable to have an email system that did not have these limitations. [0003] Further aspects of the invention will become apparent from consideration of the drawings and the ensuing description of preferred embodiments of the invention. A person skilled in the art will realize that other embodiments of the invention are possible and that the details of the invention can be modified in a number of respects, all without departing from the inventive concept. Thus, the following drawings and description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature and not restrictive.DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS [0004] The features of the invention will be b...

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Benefits of technology

[0731] One advantage of the invention is there might not necessarily be file allocation tables or equivalent to be corrupted as the database of the filenames could be easily recreated.

[0732] In a preferred embodiment files could also be named in ways similar to DNS and IP addresses. Instead of or in addition to using the file namespaces there could be names like 231;345,98,99;489; with each number preferably indicating an attribute. I call these herein the NP addresses standing for Namespace Protocol. This could be translated by a system substantially similar to the Domain Naming System, here I will call it the File Namespace System or FNS. For example a series of numbers 231;345; in the namespace protocol or NP might mean in a friendly name “system; Administrator” meaning that the system attribute was represented by the number 231 and the Administrator attribute was represented by 345. So this can operate in ways substantially equivalent to the Internet Protocol address and Fully Qualified Domain Names in modern computing.

[0733] In a preferred embodiment the file namespace can be regarded as N dimensional in Hilbert Space where each attribute can be regarded as substantially like a dimension. For example if a file had potentially 20 attributes separated by semi colons then it could be described as being able to be represented in a 20 dimensional space.

[0734] In a preferred embodiment the exampled files can be represented including being graphed in this N dimensional space. For example humans can visualize three dimensions at a time, so 3 attributes at a time could be viewed in a 3 dimensional graph, and the user could move to any other 2 or 3 dimensions to get an overall view of the data. More on this was disclosed in my PCT WO9910766.

[0735] In a preferred embodiment if a file is desired and the user has all or part of the “friendly” attribute names the program goes to the File Namespace System and receives what I call the Namespace Protocol name which is composed of numbers instead of words. Preferably then the file namespaces might be stored as numbers rather than words because these would be easier for a computer to manipulate. When necessary the File Namespace System would get the file with the preferred Namespace Protocol numbers.

[0736] This is preferably equivalent to the TCP / IP system where an IP address is formed of numbers like the NP, and relates to the Domain name which here is the file namespace. For example 210.34.23.12 might be an IP address and www.example.com a domain name.

Problems solved by technology

Distributed computing directs data to other computers, but this is inefficient as there needs to be a central source and coordinator for the tasks.

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